He does look like the sheriff, doesn't he?
Looking at this picture and if this boy is really the young Red John, I think he can only be McAllister.




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sexy Van Pelt can't be redjhon because she is too sexy to be

I just re-watched the episode "Red Wedding".  Not one of my favorites this year.  However, Jane has a very interesting conversation with Sheriff Mcallister.  He sneaks up on Patrick to which Jane says he didn't hear him coming.  The Sheriff then replies, "Well it's an old habit.  I've been a hunter most of my life."  "What do you hunt? Jane asks.  "Anything with a face..."  Patrick then points out that hunting requires quite a blood lust.  From this conversation alone, I am really starting to think it's Mcallister.  He enjoys killing.  Also, he mentions he's been a hunter most of his life.  Perhaps he started killing in 1988 at the Visualize farm?  

The Sheriff is also middle-aged but in good health, as Sophie Miller notes.  He's got the most calm and self-assured posture like Sophie describes.  When he was cast in season one, Xander Berkley had a bit more hair which was "short and straight" as Rosalind describes.  He's under six feet, not muscular but not thin.  Whether He Is Mar means He Is Marked or He Is Marhsall, again he fits.  Lastly, he's the only one who really seems to want to befriend Patrick.  I mean, he even says, he's at Patrick's disposal anytime.  He even asks him to call him "Tom".  All this coupled with a taste for blood has suddenly put him in the forefront to me.

Plus I re-watched his first episode, "Red Hair-Silver tape".  He was pretty creepy from the get go.  He almost forced Van Pelt into his car to the point the team thought he was the killer.  If the tattoo thing is legit, and the list is truly legit, then "Tom" just might be our guy!

Will the episode 7 be available this week ?

In S01E02, sheriff McAllister first meets PJ.
PJ finds out that the killer they're looking for (in this particular episode) is abducting redhead girls in order to rape them.
He tells Van Pelt to go near the crime scene alone (but with a camera and a wire so the team can watch her) to attract the suspect.
First person to show up is not PJ's guess but McAllister ! He offers a ride to Van Pelt because the last events prooved that this area was "dangerous" and she kindly refuses (because she wants to catch the rapist and assumes that McAllister isn't him).
But then something very odd happens, the sheriff really insists on driving her home.. In such an intense, almost violent, way that rigsby runs towards McAllister to protect Van Pelt.
And later on PJ catches his original guess who turns out to be the killer.

It feels that this really strange moment where you could almost consider McAllister as a killer trying to attract his "prey" was forgotten.

So my theory is : McAllister is RJ and Van Pelt was supposed to be his victim in this episode.
He had no idea he was being filmed. You can really distinguish a mean look on his face.
You should check this episode out, because you can definitely see that McAllister is trying to abduct Van Pelt and that is some relevant evidence.

PS : Please excuse my poor english.

hi guys,

in a fresh spoiler i have read that the real RJ is one of the 7 suspects!!!!!!
in the promo of 6/7 there is 3 photo on the wall in the CBI office, possibly because the other two (gale bertram and reede smith) died in jane's house at the end of 6/6.
please consider that RJ is IN the 7.... therefore macallister seems to be the only one who has the tatto and still alive...

I really hope we'll get an explanation for the writing on the wall. A lot of people seem to think it's "he is marked". I don't think so. It seems very strange that a dying man would write that on the wall instead of just 'tattoo' for example. And anyway, how would he have seen it? Was Red John killing him in a sleeveless top? lol
 
The only reasonable explanation for me would be "he is marshal" which is something like a sheriff if I'm not wrong? He was obviously wearing his uniform and because the guy didn't know his name, he didn't know what else to write..

I think it's much more believable than "he is marked". That wouldn't be a big help, people can be marked in different ways.